] that is why we are here to beg your honor to help us for this matter. we are fixed income, so if our recommendation is 750, 8. if to be paid, the base. that is why. we are here, saying what i

said, to beg your consideration for us, to help us for this matter, thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, honorable supervisors. i'm mrs. lolit ramos. fixed income. i spend $6.50 a day for daily meals. if i spend more for utilities maybe i skip meals for three days. i have no problem with my present services. it is okay. i'm representing the sons and daughters and widows and spouses of the organization of san francisco, thank you.

>> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. >> the other one. >> my name is rudy. i'm the executive director of west bay 43-year-old nonprofit serving the community. i think this program is incredibly well plan and very good for marin county. not for san francisco. 36% of our population are asian-americans who some are not english-speaking. i attended a lot of puc hearings where i heard professionals from marin county, they are having incredible time to opt out because process is so complicated. it is really not in the best interest of people to opt out. the two of my previous

speakers said if you are going to incorporate all the rate papers into this program without their knowledge, a lot of these n% people who do not know what this is about will not be able to understand and will just get their bill. i sincerely hope that you will think about this. and that you will give us an opportunity to really opt out very, very fast. we are mobilizing all asian-americans to opt out. thank you very much. >> thank you. i will call a few more. win ho, chris wright, rob black, arthur feinstein and rob fix. if you have heard your name, line up, please. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the committee. jenny cofton. i'm a student at san francisco state university. i'm here because my future

is dependent on your decision today n. a time of drought, food shortages and severe unpredictable events, clean power sfs has unprecedented potential for reducing city's emissions, protecting us from nuclear energy and eventually providing the city with much-needed green color jobs but has a more potent power. i know firsthand there are many young and old across the united states that would opt to pay for 100% sustainable energy if they had the choice. having a major city provide its public to that is the immediate step toward making that choice available to everyone. as such san francisco's currently in the rare and valuable position of being able to ensure the health and security of my future. i urge you to make san francisco to be the city to take that step. thank you. >> my name is gwenn mcallen. i'm here on behalf of the san francisco sierra club

chapter. we have 30,000 members in the bay area. i have been advocating for clean power sf for over five years. i'm eager to see it finally implemented. san francisco has a chance to do something truly sitting about global warming, to set the example for the rest of the country. as a coastal city we face the risk of flooding for the sea level rise and severe weather which puts our future in jeopardy. fossil fuels are not only putting our home in danger but jeopardizing the health, safety and lives of people around the world, especially poor countries that don't have the resources to do anything about it. san francisco does have the resources. we have a president barack obama -- we have a program ready to go. they will provide resources and make people proud in a city actively * striving. the clean power sf will run san francisco on at least 50% clean energy by the end of the decade putting us on track to reduce emissions

to zero by mid-century. you have the opportunity to leave a legacy so today's citizens and tomorrow can look to their government as having led the way in renewable energy. your vote in support of clean power sf will allow creation of over 4,000 jobs, including local, solar, installation and energy efficiency upgrades with a 2 million set aside for go solar sf. finally by providing residents with a clean choice they do not currently have -- >> you have 30 more seconds. >> so people are in a required opt-in program. they have pg&e that they are already opted in. they don't have another choice to use another program. it is not that much different. grace mcleod, she is one of the people that signed our pledge, she wrote it perfectly when she said, i live in an sf and i would like options. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. just so folks know there is

a warning bell at 30 seconds, you have 30 seconds before the final bell. >> [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language] >> good afternoon, my name is win ho, i'm the president of the community association. we are the largest tenant based grassroots organization and our 1,000 are all low-income immigrant seniors. we have 40 members present and here to voice concerns

regarding the clean power program. [ speaking foreign language] >> most of the members, including myself, are living under a fixed ssi income and struggling. even $5 expenses are important to us. a majority of members are enrolled in a care program to have energy bill subsidized. if we go forward with the current proposed program thousands of residents in san francisco will be

deeply affected by the rate hike and energy bills. further more we are disappointed at the lack of community outreach in process of releasing this program. none of member who's attend

our weekly meetings heard of this proposed program before. there also needs to be multilingual materials so non-english speaking residents can also learn about the program and option of opting out. we urge the city to properly address these issues of lack of community input and lack of language access, especially for non-english speaking populations. i'm not only speaking on behalf of member but all residents. this sun acceptable. the city needs to find a better solution to clean energy in san francisco and not put the burden on the

shoulders of low income residents, thank you. [ applause ] >> if i could ask folks to hold their applause so we can move through public comments, thank you. >> supervisors, i'm arthur feinstein, chair of the day chapter of sierra club. as you have heard from gwenn previously, as you might expect, we are completely in favor of this. urge you adopting it. not to go over board but this is probably one of the most important vote you will ever do. people talk about the sky falling. well, it is falling. climate change is very real. there is nothing scare yer in this world. we are seeing incredible droughts in the midwest affecting our food crops. this is not the only time this will happen. we are seeing incredible floods and storms. there's nothing more threatening to our civilization than climate change.

the only way we address it is by reducing our dependence on coal and fos it is fuels. we have a chance now to take an unprecedented step of going for 100% green energy. no one else is doing that. marin was the first cca, but they have a mix. we appropriately as san francisco are moving forward 100% green energy. it is the only way we will solve this problem. it is already too late to make a change from where we are. if we don't do anything, your kids, your grandkids are going to face a world we can't imagine. that will be scary as all get-out. i urge you to make this vote, thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is chris wright, the executive director of committee on jobs. our group was involved

around business tax. in larger discussion about needed revenue and funding for investments in city services in our community. before you is a program that is the exact opposite of the investment. this multimillion dollar contract fails to create jobs or renewable energy and exposes most vulnerable san franciscans to rate increases. to the controller's report electricity cost will increase by nearly 80%. just to break even. additionally city government is charged higher rates by the puc to pay for this program. the end result is lost jobs and unnecessary harm to the economy. the contract with shell does require any renewables be built anywhere but in san francisco. the report says the program will result in a less of more than 100 jobs, far from the promises of a deal promised by program

advocates before. another detriment to the program is fact customer also automatically be enrolled into the program. meaning residents could unknowingly face significant increase in cost. i would say that on this point that members of this body in the past have been and would be critical of a private company that automatically enrolled customer into a premium product. yet this is proposed right now. in summary, this is a bad program that fails to meet the most basic elements of its previous promises. you should vote to send this back to the drawing board, thank you. >> thank you. i will call a few more names. barbara raymond, katherine roberts, al winerup, nick freeman, christian ettiger. >> i'm rod block, executive director for golden gate restaurant association. i'm here in two capacities, the business community and as someone followed cca in

2004 when first voted for and i worked for supervisor pier. at that time cca was promised to create thousands of local jobs, green jobs, move the city to 100% renewable at better price than pg&e. eight years later we have a contract before you. a contract that is going to cost close to $20 million, not counting six million already spent, which the controller says will cost jobs, not increase, not create city and city-owned power generation and will cost residents 77% more for electricity generation. let's look at the players in this process. shell energy. so shell energy, pg&e, clean power sf and rate payers. shell energy we found out two days ago started drilling in alaska, also the largest investors in the canadian and carbon intense way. pg&e a local company has challenges. they have some problems. being an industry leader is

not one of those -- industry leader around clean energy is not one of their problems. i have given all of you an nrdc report generated this year based on the 100 largest electrical gone ray tors in the country. out of that report pg&e, as part of -- they are the lowest co2 emissions per megawatt of any investor-owned utility in america. while they may have other problems, co2 emissions isn't one. the other part to highlight is clean power sf. they have a million dollars of marketing. currently if you look at their marketing they say will my rates increase. they say we will try to be comparative to pg&e. they don't say yes, by 77%. they say can i exit the program. yes, enthusiastically. they don't say you will have to pay to do that. that is not the best marketing if we want a fair and balanced conversation.

>> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon chairman chu and supervisors. davis fix. i'm a plan c board member. as you know plan c is a civic organization with more than 1,000 members. while we and everybody else support green power and concerned about climate change this proposal does nothing to increase the creation of green energy or green jobs. we have consistently opposed public power and see the cca as the first step in that direction, which voters in san francisco have consistently rejected over the last number of years. we are concerned about the money committed to this program. san francisco cannot afford this money. i as a puc customer am concerned even if i opt out of the program as a puc customer the 19 million i've committed to this program i will have to pay for, whether i want to be part of the program or not.

this will increase utility costs. i'm concerned about the controls. as a pg&e customer my rates have not gone up substantially but rates with the puc have gone up significantly over the past number of years. finally this program will be run by a bad player. executive director of green peace united kingdom called shell one of the dirtyest, most regressive corporations in the world. i urge you to reject the cca. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is barbara raymond. i'm happy to be here. i'm sorry everybody left before i had a chance to talk to everybody. i'm a resident of san francisco. i live in the mission district. i purchased a house there in 1978 so i have been here

a long time. i went out for the sierra club about five years ago. the petition talked about hetch hetchy, how san francisco owned hetch hetchy, what a wonderful program it s. everybody signed my petition. whether in the park in the heights, dolores or farmer's market, everybody loved this idea. then disappeared. i don't know who was against it. i never heard anything more about this. this is five years later. i still have my tee-shirt i wore when i came here five years ago. it says clean energy. well, i was really looking forward to saying great, we are going to have clean energy. i'm sorry, i came to this wonderful presentation. it was excellently researched, beautifully

presented. i will tell you what, the last -- all i heard is it will cast more. well, that is fine. our wonderful program of picking up garbage is -- gosh, i have to skip this part. that costs more too. but anyway when i heard the word shell, i live in hawaii part of the time. they went for clean energy too. there was a volcano over there. they take clean energy, which is not clean from a volcano, has sulfuric acid and is dirty energy. i don't think shell has any clean energy at all. not mentioned any solar power. how are we going to get clean energy? >> thank you. >> shell does not have clean energy. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

hi, nick freeman, i'm a resident and native of san francisco and strong believer in the idea we could have clean energy. i don't think this plan is that plan. i'm not really qualified to kind of dissect all the different problems it has. i think one of the problems that i did feel was a stumbling point that i feel could be addressed would be to kind of understand how we can get a better plan than shell. i don't think we are in a good place with this project. i understand they are the only ones who present it and qualified but i think it is really important to do better. i don't think it is going to be successful or popular or widely adopted or a good model for follow-on procedures if we don't take the time to get it right now. there are several ways that could be done.

one of the first is to enlist and adopt some of the community-based initiatives in place. work with some of the power producing groups, some of the private enterprises. i just think handing everything over to shell is a prescription for disaster, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm katherine roberts. i am a small rental property owner in district five. i remember eight years ago when then supervisor mirkarimi got elected. i recently purchased my building, telling him it would take $30,000 give or take to put solar panels on the roof. i really wanted. i pay the utilities for the whole building because the way it is metered, my bills are extremely high. he said i would hold off because we will probably

have community choice aggregation before the end of the year. then the next time he got re-elected i asked him again should i get solar panels. he gave me the same answer. so this clearly has been going on for a long time. i can't afford 30-plus thousand for solar panels. there are new models where you can loose but you need a higher credit score than the credit score i have. even just to pay to rent them would be more expensive, then i would only be renting them. i'm interested in the city getting some kind of program where if i pay -- i'm sure i would be paying probably the higher rate because i pay the bills for the whole building. could be 25, 30 a month. that would be a lot more affordable than 30,000 for the panels. i want you to do all the outreach you have been

talking about. multilingual, take care of people on the care program and pg&e now so they don't suffer anymore >>clerk: councilmember knapp?ly because of the switch over. i would be very interested in finding another provider, making the contract with shell short-term or doing because i have the same qualms about shell everybody else does, at least as strong, maybe stronger than what has been expressed. so if that is a temporary -- if that is something that could be improved in the short term that would be great. >> thank you. david s*edker, jacquelyn swim, michael sambrano, walter -- >> hello, supervisors and represents. my name is chris ettinger. i'm here representing the sierra club, citizen's climate lobby. i think the sf power initiative is a tremendous opportunity to do something

affirmative, to address this climate change crisis and really set an example for other municipalities around the country. i think other municipalities are looking to do similar things. we need to get the ball rolling and build up the momentum. this is what needs to be done. i think the clean power sf is a good vehicle for that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. my name is al winerup, with the clean energy alliance, bay area. how many people decide to have a child based on the first six months of his life and for getting about the rest? you know, this legislation is not about 30 megawatts but the entire clean power sf program. it states very clearly this is just a kick-off of a

much broader kind of program. 30 megawatts, we know 400 is residential and another twice that, another 400 is commercial. we are talking about 20 to 30 megawatts out of an 800 megawatt program. that program will generate jobs, jobs, jobs. without people working there are no consumers. no one to worry about consumer questions when there are no jobs. this is an economic program. it is kick-started by a very, very small piece. that is not the legislation we are talking about. the legislation we are talking about is the entire program. not just the first 30 megawatts. no one will go into this unless there is 770 megawatts. it is all economic

development, job, greenhouse gas reduction, democrat control of our energy system, the things that will put san francisco back on the map as the city that is moving forward. >> thank you, next speaker. >> ♪ you ask how much we need clean power, must i explain. we need all my city like roses need rain ♪ i will tell you until we are green and blue until the 12th of never, we will be needing you ♪ hold it close, never let the clean power go ♪ hold it close, meld the budget like puc ♪ and i love you and need you until the blue bells forget to bloom ♪ will need you

even if the budget had met its doom ♪ will need you the city and i will tell you green and blue ♪ until the 12th of city never and that's a long, long time ♪ until the 12th of never, and that's a long, long time ♪ maybe give us a dime and down the road i look and there runs budget mary ♪ and she got lots of gold and i know she cares about me ♪ it is good to touch the city green, green grass ♪ of home ♪ >> thank you. [applause]

>> will lowery, isabell, eric brooks, joshua, john weiss, june brasheres. >> good afternoon, my name is jacquelyn flynn, the executive director of the a. phillip randolf institute in san francisco. i first would like to thank ed harrington, all the service he's given to the puc. i thank them for their presentation. i think it is a lot of information to digest. i am here, and i would like to say we are here. i have folks with me. on behalf of communities and residents we serve. i appreciate the questions that the board has asked. the puc, as well as the controller's office. i thank you for your service because i believe you are the front line protection for our communities. i would like to voice a few concerns i have. i have been in conversation with people around the